THROUGHOUT THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THEIR

INDEPENDENCE;

AND

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

BY DAVID RAMSAY, M. D.

AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

NEW-YORK:

Printed by Hopkins & Seymour,

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1807.

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Foundations.
1900

15081

E it remembered, that on the fifth day of September, in the thirty-second year

of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following:

"The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States "of America, throughout the war which established their Independence, and first Presi"dent of the United States. By David Ramsay, M. D. author of the History of the "American Revolution."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the "encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Au"thors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."

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TO

THE YOUTH

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

IN THE HOPE THAT, FROM THE

EXAMPLE

OF THEIR

COMMON FATHER,

THEY WILL LEARN TO DO AND SUFFER

WHATEVER

THEIR COUNTRY'S GOOD

MAY REQUIRE AT THEIR HANDS,

THE FOLLOWING LIFE OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY

INSCRIBED,

BY THE

AUTHOR.